Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of Red and Men in the Off Hours were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and she has received numerous North American awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.
In her brilliant new book, she tells a single story. A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 'tangos' of narrative verse, informed by the romanticism of Keats, the wisdom of the classical world and, most importatnly, by Carson's own unique sensibility.
The unnamed narrator - sometimes 'I', sometimes 'the wife' - speaks of the man she calls only 'the husband', illuminating moments that are by turn sensual, erotic, painful and heartbreaking. The Beauty of the Husband is a work that explores these oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and devastating power.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Jonathan Cape (Random)
ISBN: 9780224061308
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 14/06/2001
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Anne Carson
Nació en Toronto (Canadá) en 1950, y se dedica a la enseñanza de griego antiguo. En 2020 recibió el Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Letras. Ha publicado varios volúmenes misceláneos de poemas y ensayos, como Cristal, ironía y Dios y Decreación, la obra de teatro en verso Norma Jeane Baker de Troya, el ensayo Economía de lo que no se pierde, el diario de viaje Tipos de agua, sus anotaciones sobre la lectura de En busca del tiempo perdido (Marcel Proust) y recopiladas bajo el título Albertine, su traducción de Safo en Si no, el invierno y el libro-objeto NOX, todos ellos publicados por Vaso Roto.